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...underestimating terrorists neither so grave nor so fresh, it would be tempting to look at the seven men indicted on conspiracy charges for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and laugh. Not so much at the suspects--five American citizens, a legal immigrant from Haiti and an illegal Haitian national, all of whose hardscrabble bios make them seem more sad than sinister--but at those who considered them a real threat to wage, as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales put it, "a full ground war against the United States." FBI deputy director John Pistole conceded that the men, part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door? | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 5, 2006 | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...Providing security is currently mostly the preserve of some 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers under Brazilian command, on whom Préval will depend as long as the situation demands it. He plans to formally abolish the Haitian military, unofficially defunct since President Aristide dissolved it in 1995, although one of the greatest threats to Haiti's stability since then has come from the disgruntled former soldiers who eventually overthrew Aristide's government two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cloudy Dawn in Haiti | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...York Times columnist John Tierney took Harvard’s History Department to task for failing to offer a comprehensive survey course on, among other things, the American Revolution. (Instead, its faculty offer a freshman seminar on the Declaration of Independence; a class that compares the American and Haitian revolutions; and “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America?...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: The Case for History 10a | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

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